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Sitka is becoming a sailboat again. In this episode of sailing sitka, we start putting together some essentials to make our boat operational again. This includes testing our tides marine track to see how it holds our mainsail!! Please make sure to subscrib...

Did we just waste thousands of dollars on this? In this episode of sailing sitka, we come upon some sad news. After doing some regular maintenance to our wooden masts, we try out our new piece of equitment that will change the sailing game for Sitka... onl...

Hot mess in the yard. On this episode of Sailing Sitka, we begin our sailboat refit by sanding down the waterline and hull of Sitka. If that isn't hard enough, we are doing it in an extreme heat wave in the desert of Mexico!

In this episode of Sailing Sitka, we return to our boat after 4 months away and after she survived a sandstorm up to 90 knot winds. We organize and clean the exterior and interior of Sitka to get her in a more liveable shape as well as get adjusted to a ma...

Saying goodbye to our boat... In this episode of sailing sitka, we use our last day in the yard to clean up Sitka as best as we could in order to leave her stored in the yard for 3 months! We fly home to Canada to work in order to save up some cruising cas...

We found holes in our boat! In this episode, we start day 4 in the Guaymas boatyard by inspecting the blisters and bubbles we found on our keel. We figure out what need immediate attention and also figure out a game plan on how to address them. We start cl...

Sanding the bottom of our Cheoylee Offshore 41 sailboat. In this episode of Sailing Sitka, we continue sanding below the waterline on the portside, to ready her for fresh bottom paint when we fly back to Mexico next season. We found a couple problem areas ...

Hauling a$$ on the hard. In this weeks episode of Sailing Sitka, we are off to a rough start with day 1 in the Guaymas boatyard. This video contains boat projects that we need to get done within a span of 6 days before relocating our boat. Hot, blind and s...

Hauling out our cheoylee offshore 41 sailboat in Mexico. The time has come! We are officially taking Sitka out of the water in Guaymas, Mexico. The process was not as smooth as we would have liked being a sailboat with 2 masts in a small slip with an excep...

Follow along as we head back to our hometown one last time before finally getting to sail off into the sunset (or something like that.). We've got to make a quick trip to South Carolina to move our camper, take a car to the junkyard, leave our Chevy suburb...

Splashing and Launching a Yacht is no easy feat, it's one of the most exciting and stressful times for a boat owner. Tons of things can go wrong, and we do everything to make sure nothing does. I trek down to Panama to help my friend @ParlayRevival splash ...

Episode #238 : Season 8 : The Hawaiian Adventures Hello Friends! THE TIME HAS FINALLY COME!!!! We are hauling out to fix Triteia's rudder once and for all! On this episode I untie from Ala Wai Harbor and make my way over to the Keehi Marine Center for my...